Top 815 Hoped Quotes & Sayings

I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined

What matters more? What you said you'd do, what you hoped to do, or what you did?

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

I hoped 'Tashan' would be a clutter-breaker.

I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .

My parents prepared me for the worst, hoped for the best.

I know that Arnold Toynby, the great historian, said he had always hoped the religions of the world would evolve until they began to bring the very best of each tradition into one tradition. He hoped that Christianity would be the one religion that finally incorporated the values of Hinduism and Buddhism, and enriched itself with them.

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

I hoped people would take me as I am. It doesn't matter where I come from.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you.

When I came out I hoped it would empower others - and it has.

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine.

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.

I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student. I wince to read that story nowadays, but I published it with an odd photo I'd found in a junk shop, and at least I still like the picture. I had a few things in the school paper, and then I got published in a small literary magazine. I hoped I would one day get published in The New Yorker, but I never allowed myself to actually believe it. Getting published is one of those things that feels just as good as you'd hoped it would.

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

As soon as I heard the term 'comedy nerd,' I'd hoped there was a lot of them.

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

I always hoped I would be injured so I didn't have to dance any more.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

Life has not turned out as I hoped it would.

When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.

Since he was born, Mandy and I have hoped to give Blaine a brother or sister.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part. The bigger part hoped he was in the shower.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.

It's okay to be sad if things don't go the way you had hoped.

Pansy rolled over and went to sleep, but Petunia stayed awake long after Olga left, and long after Oliver crawled out from under the bed, grabbed some sandwiches, and slipped out the door. She hoped that he was going to Galen and Rose's room, and she hoped, too that he hadn't known she was awake when he had leaned over and kissed her hair. She wanted to savor that touch forever.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

We did not hope for the same things, but we all hoped.

Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.

The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.